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• James Clear: Habits

• Dan Runcie: Business x Hip Hop

• Codie Sanchez: Boring businesses

• Nick Huber: Sweaty startups

• David Perell: Personal Monopoly

• Wes Kao: Spiky Point Of View

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I have been thinking a lot about the continued and increasing lack of importance being placed on the idea of conversation , things over the past few years can feel so transactional. Thing is, like everyone, I love the one-way form of conversation that exists via the abundance (and abundance of forms) of content that is out there that drives me to... See more

“Where does this format fit into your target audiences’ lives?” . Build a scenario that explains when and how they engage with your format, and what they need to do to build a regular habit around it.

Many of us are wired to look at work as something that should produce monetary rewards. Or at least with writing, some amount of attention, or new followers. But on the internet, sustained attention may take years to materialize, if at all. And too many people are focused on short-term followers instead of the genuine credibility that can come from... See more

If you find yourself angrily or excitedly replying in paragraphs to someone else’s writing or creations, you should stop and ask yourself, “Is this my curiosity demanding to be unleashed?”

Your premise is the specific, defensible purpose for a project or your overall platform, pulled from your personal vision for your audience . Most work is too generic to resonate, too forgettable to become anyone’s favorite. But by developing our premise — and forcing ourselves to test just how differentiated it truly feels to others — we stand a... See more

As we think about a title for episode one, we ask them to imagine the title for episode ten of the third series. We then ask them to imagine, or write down, all the episode titles in between. This serves two purposes: it helps them develop a title format and aids in visualising their content as an archive, which it will become if they fully commit... See more